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RSS FeedsFans let Radiohead down during sombre moment in Toronto concert
(The Star Religion)

 
 

20 july 2018 23:11:24

 
Fans let Radiohead down during sombre moment in Toronto concert
(The Star Religion)
 


Radiohead, with Junun3.5 starsAt Scotiabank Arena, Thursday, July 19. A memo to the people of Toronto on the correct protocol to be observed during a moment of silence: be silent. Just for a moment. It’s called “a moment of silence” and not an “hour of silence” for a reason. Pretty easy. The concept is well within the grasp of your average 3-year-old. Yet when Thom Yorke and the rest of the members of Radiohead finally acknowledged the elephant in the room at the Scotiabank Arena at the end of a markedly sombre, but altogether riveting and deep, two-hour-plus set on Thursday evening and asked that the 20,000 or so fans in the rink be quiet for a moment to honour the memory of their former drum tech, Scott Johnson — who perished when a faulty stage collapsed in on him just a couple of hours before the Oxford quintet’s last scheduled Toronto performance at Downsview Park on June 16, 2012 — we blew it. We blew it.“Six years ago, we wanted to do a show in Toronto. The stage collapsed, killing one of our colleagues and friends,” said Yorke, who’d otherwise barely uttered more than a “thank you” or two to the room between tunes all night long, at the close of what turned out to be an eight-song double encore. “The people who should be held accountable are not being held accountable … The silence is f---ing deafening.”Yorke’s subsequent efforts to impose a respectful silence on the rink were, however, largely frustrated — first by the usual idiots who feel compelled to fill every second of reflection or peaceful dead air at every show with feral “WOOOOOOs” and “WE LOVE YOUs,” then by misguided guardians of decency yelling “Shut up!” at them from every corner of the bowl and, finally, by others who thought they might rescue the situation by screaming things like “Justice!” and “Scott Johnson!” and … ...


 
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